Cactuses are a good example of unending number of great photographs all over the world. But the native land, the cactus land, starts in American Patagonia and reach up to south of Canada. Cactuses are succulents and had been naturalized to many other places on the world. What cactuses like is a mineral based soil. Its special evolved leaves and body structure allows them to store a watter and fight against herbivores.